Architects Balkrishna V Doshi and Rahul Mehrotra recall India's finest urban architect.
Well known architect Hafeez Contractor talks about the man who inspired him the most, Charles Correa.
India's foremost architect and town planner was renowned as much for his 'breathing' spaces as for his irascible personality
Correa played a defining role in developing architecture of post-Independence India and has designed some of the most outstanding structures.
When Correa was hailed as India's greatest architect in 2013, he said, 'Greatest is so...so definite. Most innovative might have been better'
India's greatest contemporary architects Charles Correa died on Tuesday night at the age of 84. He was best known for his "open-to-sky" designs, which were reflected in some of his famous projects. Rediff.com takes a look at some popular buildings that got the Correa touch.
'When Dr Murli Manohar Joshi wanted to start a course on astrology, Jayant was the first one to have the courage to stand up and say astrology is not science.' 'That's a very rare quality -- to stand up to authority.'
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Some BJP and Congress leaders believe the assembly building is filled with 'negative energy'.
'I cannot afford to go to court. I cannot afford to lose a case. I will fight the Gandhi way -- peacefully, non-violently, and with determination,' Purshottam Chauhan, a resident of the Sabarmati Ashram, tells Rosamma Thomas. Around him, the homes of former neighbours are rubble. About 300 Dalit families resided within the premises of the Sabarmati Ashram till 2021. Only about 40 now remain.
Typically, these unsung and largely anonymous backroom boys account for as much as 45-55 per cent of a building cost and bear the burden of reducing energy waste over the life cycle of the structure. And yet, for all the Hafeez Contractors and Charles Correas, you might be hard put to remember the named of any MEP service provider.
Tata Steel on Wednesday said it has initiated the construction of a technical training institute near Gopalpur in Ganjam district of Orissa.
It is a record that the saffron party has created, where the majority of its legislators belonged to the minority community.
The Portuguese PM later visited churches at Old Goa as well as Mangueshi temple in North Goa.
In the '80s after Xerxes Desai, moved to Bengaluru and spent the initial days on building Titan from a factory in Hosur.
Friends of Vinod Mehta came together to remember the man and his legacy.
He designed some of India's most iconic buildings.
Mahendra Raj is a towering figure of 20th century Indian architecture.
There have been significant changes in Gujarat, says Uttam Ghosh, as he captures the state in his camera.
At Sabarmati Ashram that very hot summer evening, some had come to see and feel the place where Bapu lived. Some had come to be alone on the lawns after a disappointing Class 12 result...
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